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All one need ask a music maven is "Who's won the most Grammy awards in history?" The correct answer is classical arranger and conductor Sir Georg Solti; however, the "Grammiest" "popular music" award-winner is Quincy Jones. Quincy Jones, Grammy awards or not, will also go down in history as one of the most important forces in jazz and popular music of the twentieth century, and his work continues into the new millenium.
Jones is known to his legion of collaborators, friends and admirers as "Q." His list of collaborators is a veritable "who's who" of music industry greats, including Sinatra, Ray Charles, Peggy Lee, Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin, Lesley Gore, Count Basie, Billy Eckstine, Carmen McRae, Diana Ross and many, many others. Perhaps his most financially successful endeavor was the record-breaking 30-million copy sales of the record he produced for the infamous Michael Jackson, Thriller. Despite his immense success in the record business as a producer, there are many more facets to the artistic diamond named Quincy Jones.
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need strong brothers
more than they need attentive lovers
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They need brothers who have the courage
to say, your most recent behavior
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Quincy Jones among all the things he is
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Sanford and Son, Ironside, The Bill Cosby Show; when America tuned their television sets in to these shows, the theme music and many of the "cues" (incidental music) were either written or arranged by Jones. Beside filling American living rooms with television scores each week, he also wrote, arranged and produced a lot of music for the silver screen.
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A testimony to the versatility of Jones's music for Hollywood: Tucked away in a vault was a recording produced by Phil Ramone in 1962. It had appeared on a Quincy Jones 1962 album Big Band Bossa Nova and beside the signature flute line featured Clark Terry on trumpet, along with some of the major talent of the day. In 1962 the hippest folks were going to the new night clubs; discotheques. Girls dared to wear their first mini-skirts. Modern design had transcended the outrageous "space age" streamlining of the late '50s and was morphing into something closer to the simplicity of Danish modern. The song was "Soul Bossa Nova," written, arranged and directed by Jones and the hippest sound around of its day. Well, the producers of the Mike Meyers movie Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) thought it "shag-a-delic" enough that they used it as the theme song for the movie, 35 years later.
Quincy Delight Jones was born in the midst of the Great Depression on the infamous South Side of Chicago, Illinois on March 14, 1933. By the time he'd discovered that music was a significant interest, his family had uprooted to Seattle, Washington, where he sang with a gospel choir and took lessons on the trumpet. In 1950, he graduated high school and scored a scholarship at Berklee School of Music (at the time of his enrollment, it was called "Schillinger House."
He didn't finish a degree at Schillinger House; opting instead to seek fame and fortune in The Big Apple; New York, after being brought to the attention of jazz great Lionel Hampton. It was 1953, and Hampton took him on as a second-seat trumpeter in his band. It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Jones to rub elbows with many jazz greats, where he learned more from the demands of a rehearsal and performance schedule than could ever be learned at a music school. So skilled was the young musician he was hired by the likes of Count Basie, Cannonball Adderley, Tommy Dorsey and others as an arranger of others' songs.
In 1956, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie stole Quincy Jones away from Hampton's organization. Later that year, Gillespie tapped Jones as director of a special big band featuring top international performers. Ever the hard worker, "Q" found enough time to record his first album, This Is How I Feel About Jazz, on the Paramount label. The record enjoyed a modicum of sales, but was far from a harbinger of the critical acclaim and popular success of his future efforts.
By the way, beside all of his arranging, conducting and producing chores, he still managed to get onto record playing the trumpet in his own inimitable fashion. Many biographies of Jones underplay the fine command of the instrument Jones possesses.
Do You Know Quincy Jones?
Quincy Jones has never been a big self-promoter so far as the general public is concerned. A humble yet very accomplished artist, he's let the success of his ventures over the course of sixty years speak for themselves. It's amazing that one man could turn out the enormous body of work he has; not only in the musical arena, but elsewhere. He is a published author, has produced motion pictures, and has been involved in television series development, production and music.
Unless you're a die-hard fan of jazz or R&B, you may have never been exposed to a Quincy Jones "written-produced-directed" album. It is his collaborations with some of the most legendary artists in the fields of jazz and popular music that created the legend called "Q." Suffice it to say that his career has been a diverse one; so diverse, in fact, that he arguably has no rivals in the entertainment industry on the basis of the amount and diversity of his creative efforts.
The Jazz Man
Like so many bohemians (particularly persons of color) in the music world of the 1950s, Jones relocated to Paris in 1957. He studied with Nadia Boulanger, who was not well-known for her performances nor compositions, but was a legendary educator in the area of composition, musical theory and direction. Q's experiences in the beatnik years of the late '50s and early '60s include arranging and producing sessions for legends like Jacques Brel and Charles Aznavour. He traveled throughout France and Europe with American artists, as well.
Jones's French period ended when the American record label Mercury heard his work. He was only 28 years old when he was named a Vice President at Mercury. A Milestone: this was the first time a black man had been hired as a high-level executive for one of the major American labels.
Mercury's gamble with Quincy Jones paid off when he stepped out of the jazz limelight and arranged and produced the teenage sensation Lesley Gore's smash hit "It's My Party." Gore went on to pioneer pop lyrics and delivery, particularly with the controversial feminist statement "You Don't Own Me," which was far ahead of its time. Jones was right behind her, encouraging such trend-setting sounds. You Don't Own Me didn't chart well, and earned nary a Grammy, but it made a statement that was an inspiration for budding feminists and particularly young black women that changed lives. Somehow, in-between duties for the Mercury label, on a freelance basis, he arranged music for Ray Charles, who he had met when they were both very young, on the Atlantic label.
Hooray for Hollywood!
Until 1958 the music we heard at the movies was written by aging white guys. Director Sidney Lumet changed that when he wanted a trend-setting score for his movie The Pawnbroker. Quincy Jones paved the way for black composers in a "lily-white" This marked a big change in Jones's life; he left France and settled in Los Angeles. There, he would compose the music for 33 major motion pictures and countless other smaller projects.
After Lumet's Pawnbroker, he was hired on a gamble to score A Slender Thread. After that came many significant motion pictures, and television. Jones was the composer of choice when a movie producer needed something cutting-edge. Jones was the youngest of the great Hollywood composers of the day, and his assiduous attention to the content of the movies he was writing for became the stuff of legend. Controversial movies like The Anderson Tapes, Walk, Don't Run, In Cold Blood, In The Heat of the Night, A Dandy in Aspic, Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, The Lost Man, and the Getaway are some of his most notable scores.
The Small Screen
The law-and-order television viewing demographic had become used to the suspenseful, intense yet somewhat hackneyed theme for the famous Perry Mason. When the series ended, it's star, Raymond Burr, was tapped to star in a series about a wheelchair-bound lawyer called Ironside. It is arguable that the audience was attracted to the show's contemporary concept (a wheelchair-bound star) and the general cutting-edge content of the show. Part of that was the first television theme song that featured the new electronic synthesizer. Following that coup, two of Jones's most important television themes were that for The Bill Cosby Show (which included peculiar yet catchy mouth-noises from Cosby himself) but more importantly, the harmonica-laden, instantly familiar yet very jazzy theme to the series Sanford and Son, which starred Redd Foxx and was a milestone in the development of series starring persons of color in controversial, yet believable funny situations.
Q and Ol' Blue Eyes
In 1964 Count Basie convinced Jones to arrange and produce an album with Basie and none other than Frank Sinatra. The album, It Might As Well Be Swing, became an instant popular hit because of the mixture of two of the greatest sounds in swing. And swing it does. The album is as fresh today as it was in '64. Jones would produce two more albums for Sinatra, including the Grammy-Award winning Sinatra at the Sands, and Sinatra's third to last album, L.A. Is My Lady. (Sinatra's final two albums were Duets I and Duets II). One of Sinatra's most popular songs, "Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)," was arranged and produced by Jones. The song has appeared in movie soundtracks, and on television, most notably in the HBO smash series, The Sopranos.
A Social Conscience
Jones was a significant supporter of "Operation Breadbasket," led by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King. The project intended to promote economic development in urban areas. He later was a board member of the Rev. Jesse Jackson's project, People United to Save Humanity. Forgive me for veering out of chronological order, but it was Quincy Jones who produced the "We Are The World" song; a single, to promote awareness of the responsibilities of world citizenship. He gathered together an awesome array of significant stars; not the usual has-beens that show up for telethons, but major artists with records on the charts. Rumor has it that the door to the studio bore a handwritten sign taped next to it that read "leave your egos at the door." There have been many take-offs on that concept with regard to stars recording with one another, however, this is the one that started it all (Variety Magazine).
Most important to Jones from his early days in jazz was to promote African-American music and culture. He was one of the founders of the Institute for Black American Music (IBAM). One of IBAM's most important achievements was to found a national library of African-American art and music. He also was a co-founder of the Black Arts Festival in Chicago, Illinois.
One of the most important television programs he was involved in producing was a special for CBS entitled Duke Ellington, We Love You Madly. Jones led the orchestra, and featured performers included Peggy Lee, Count Basie, Aretha Franklin, Joe Williams and Sarah Vaughan. Ellington's music was given tender loving care and the program did very well in the Nielsen ratings.
Recording The Soundtrack for America
Despite his hectic production schedule, Jones found the time to go into the studio with a gaggle of top-notch R&B, popular and soul artists. From 1969 until 1981 it seemed that every Quincy Jones-produced record was destined to earn a Grammy or two or three or four. The notable 1973 album Body Heat sold over a million copies and lingered on the charts at no lower than number five for six months. Now, no musician nor producer can please "all of the people all of the time." In 1973, Jones produced an album for the great Aretha Franklin called Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky). Although the album was panned by critics, it did make it to number 2 on the Billboard "black" charts. It also garnered Franklin an Emmy for Best Female Vocal Performance for the song Master of Eyes. The album cover had a psychedelic look but the tunes were innovative and genuine Aretha. It was the final soul album before Franklin got on the disco train. One of the tunes has special meaning, however, for Jones:
Quincy Jones and composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein were close friends. Jones and Franklin added Bernstein's song "Somewhere" from the play and movie West Side Story to Aretha's Hey Now Hey album. The recording of this song provided what Jones called one of the most emotionally affecting experiences of his life. "This is a recording," he says, "that when I leave this planet I want them to play. It's one of the most moving vocal performances I've ever experienced or witnessed in my life. And Aretha played piano, too. God just came in and took over the whole space. You can really feel it. When I played it for [Bernstein] he cried like a baby."
Recalling his long friendship with Bernstein, Jones told the story of how Bernstein was constantly bugging Jones to teach him how to say "Yo Mama."So I told him if the cellist says, 'Mr. Bernstein, I think your downbeat in bar 41 was a little flabby,' you say 'Yo Mama.' But he always blew it and said 'Yo Yo Ma.'" The two were in Rome visiting the Sistine Chapel. There's a sign there that insists that people refrain from lying on the floor to look at the famous ceiling. Well, the two friends ignored the sign and were lying on the floor when "this monsignor comes running in and cries 'basta, no!' But Lennie [Bernstein] kept lying there and turned to me and said 'Yo Mama?'. I said it was the right time and the right way to say it but the wrong place."
The Music Almost Ends
In August of 1974 Jones suffered a cerebral aneurism. He survived the usually fatal episode, with the help of two brain surgeries. He was out of commission for six months thereafter. Finally, his recuperation ended, he was back at work. He started out slowly, finishing out his contract with the A&M record label. But soon he was right back in the thick of things. One of the sources for this article, however, mentioned that a by-product of one of his surgeries, a bone chip in the cranium, could be easily dislodged. This prevented him from continuing to play the trumpet.
Q and Jacko
Michael Jackson's first solo album was Off The Wall. It sold eight million copies and Jackson became an international mega-superstar. Jones became the most sought-after record producer in Hollywood. In 1982, recording history was made with their collaboration on Jackson's Thriller. The album broke records and became the best-selling album of all time, beating the Beatles, with thirty million copies. Six singles from the album made the Billboard top ten chart. The two even got legendary horror actor Vincent Price to do a "rap" of sorts on the title track. Indeed, Thriller's popularity had people moving to it's songs for years after the album's initial release.
The 1980s were good years to Quincy Jones. Despite a demanding schedule arranging and producing records for musicians, he dipped his big toe in the highly competitive fishpond of Hollywood movie-making. In 1985, he became co-producer of The Color Purple, adapted by Steven Spielberg from the book by Alice Walker. Then-veteran standup comic Whoopi Goldberg and Chicago television personality Oprah Winfrey became outstanding movie actresses, earning them international fame overnight. The film won eleven Oscar nominations. Suffice it to say that he became a pretty big fish in that pond very quickly.
Jones and Jackson, Jones says, have been in touch with one another, but Jones says he's too busy to produce another album for the controversial singer: "Man please, I've got enough to do. We already did that. I have talked to him about working with him again but I've got too much to do. I've got 900 products, I'm 74 years old. Give me a break."
Quincy Jones Becomes a Corporate Entity
In 1993, Jones teamed up with a producer named David Salzman to produce a gala concert celebrating the inauguration of President Clinton. They got along so well, they formed Quincy Jones/David Salzman Entertainment (QDE). The venture is also partially owned by Time-Warner, Inc.
Well, the company got Jones's fingers into every media pie imaginable. What started as a production company for "current and future technologies," including live performances, motion pictures and television grew into a vast, diverse media empire. Of note is the fact that the firm publishes Vibe magazine and produced the long-running NBC television series starring Will Smith, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, as well as In The House and MAD TV.
Separately, Jones owns his own label, Qwest Records, and is Chairman of one of the largest minority-owned broadcasting companies in the U.S., Qwest Broadcasting.
Back on the Block
He continues to produce hit records featuring an amazing all-star roster of players, including Back on the Block and Q's Jook Joint.
It had been eight years since Jones produced an album, at that time for A&M. Back on the Block evokes the sense of the neighborhood's coolest cat, returning as smashingly as ever, after an absence.
Here's some of what Richard S. Ginell of AllMusic.Com has to say about the album:
Quincy Jones made his debut on his own label with his most extravagant, most star-studded, most brilliantly sequenced pop album to date -- which could have only been assembled by the man who put together "We Are the World." Jones was one of the first establishment musicians to embrace rap, and one of the first to link rap with his jazz heritage; it's hard not to be moved by the likes of Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, James Moody, Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Zawinul, Sarah Vaughan, and George Benson electronically appearing on "Birdland" and trading brief licks with the likes of Kool Moe Dee and Big Daddy Kane on "Jazz Corner of the World." Later, jazz buffs would vilify Jones for not taking fuller advantage of this one-time constellation of jazz stars, but at the time, it seemed like a marvelous dialogue between the old and the new. Of course, as he well knew, celebrating jazz history is not the surest route to a blockbuster hit record, so there are plenty of radio-friendly urban pop productions here, with Herbie Hancock and George Duke on keyboards, and Siedah Garrett and 12-year-old Tevin Campbell on vocals.
And who but Quincy Jones could have gotten together Ray Charles and Chaka Khan covering "I'll Be Good To You," originally a hit for The Brothers Johnson. (A purist, reviewer Ginell calls the song "too busy." I disagree; the two legendary singers seem to be having a genuinely fun-filled, sensuous romp on that cut. Finally, the record includes "The Secret Garden," a mainstay of smooth jazz radio stations, and late-night soul programs like "The Quiet Storm" on New York's WBLS radio; emulated often by others but never duplicated.
Back on The Block won the Grammy in 1990 for "Album of the Year." It also won for "Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical." Three Songs won various Grammys as well, with the spectacular "Birdland" garnering three Grammys of its own. With regard to the album's performance on the charts, suffice it to say it was the most popular in the categories of Urban, R&B and Hip-Hop. The album itself charted very well, reaching the top ten, again in a variety of genres, in both 1989 and 1990.
Jones did it again in '95 with Q's Juke Joint; yet another eclectic album anchored by heavyweight musical legends but showcasing very new talent as well.
To mention a few, performers Gloria Estefan, Babyface, Phil Collins, John Clayton (who now works with jazz great Diana Krall, rapper Coolio, Patti Austin, Nick Ashford (of Ashford and Simpson Fame), Bono, Naomi Campbell, and many more contributed to an eclectic collection of music from jazz to rap and everything in-between. Oh, by the way, a guy named Ray Charles sings "Let the Good Times Roll" on the album, backed by a legion of great big-band performers, a rapper, and Bono playing the part of a mope who can't get into the coolest club in town. The album peaked at number one on the Billboard Magazine Top Contemporary Jazz Album chart in both 1995 and 1996. In was in the top ten of the R&B/Hip-Hop charts in both years, as well, and scored a 32 on the '95 Billboard 200. In the decade when [CD|Compact Discs were coming into their own, a number of singles off the album charted well. The only Grammy, however, was for "Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical.
Quincy Jones has been nominated for a Grammy award 76 times; more than any other person. He won 26 times. He was nominated seven times for the Oscar, finally receiving the prestigious Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. A biographical film of his life was made by Warner Brothers in 1990, and in 2001, he published Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones. Available separately from the book, The Musical Autobiography of Quincy Jones is four-disc boxed set includes Jones's favorite accomplishments.
It is a testimony to Jones's humility that he's managed to stay out of the limelight and is in fact an unfamiliar name to many people. He has granted precious few interviews and made even fewer television appearances. Quincy Jones is truly the music industry's Renaissance Man.
Perfect People (bio/photos): http://www.perfectpeople.net/celebrity-star/3392/quincy-jones.htm (Accessed August 19, 2008)
NME (Music Industry News Site): http://www.nme.com/news/michael-jackson/28551 (Accessed August 19, 2008)
AllMusic.com: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&searchlink=QUINCY|JONES&sql=11:diftxqt5ldfe~T1 (Accessed August 19, 2008)
Starpulse.com: http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Jones,_Quincy/Biography/ (Accessed August 19, 2008)
IMDb: The Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005065/bio (Accessed August 19, 2008)
Academy of Achievement: A museum of living history: http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/jon0bio-1 (Accessed August 19, 2008)
The Musical Biography of Quincy Jones: (Booklet accompanying four compact discs) ©2001 Quincy Jones Productions and Rhino Entertainment Company.
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anybody but 26 year old white guys.
(black, white and plaid) equal a whopping 53%; so I'll call this group "the majority."
So women are NOT a minority, we're just treated like one. How come?
manage to wangle us an invitation to that "Million Man March."
in features to exclude all female directors from consideration?
How come it's acceptable for TV shows to have only one woman writer on staff?
How come "tokenism" isn't a dirty word anymore?
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Writing and directing work isn't easily quantified. But look around.
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What example are you setting for other men in our industry?
made of quicksand! The biggies think we're harmless.
Let's bite the hand that's hardly feeding us.
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Controversy in museums: a timeline
https://australianmuseum.net.au/about/history/timelines/controversy-in-museums-a-timeline/
This timeline first appeared in the Journal of Museum Education, Volume 23, No 3, 1998 and was co-edited by Maureen McConnell and Honee Hess. It is reproduced here with kind permission of the authors.
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Australian Museum Timeline
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The Australian Museum has undergone some turbulent times since it was established in 1827.
archives timeline history
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Curiosity and adventure have inspired our field trips since our first organised expedition in 1831.
archives expedition history
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Learn more about what we do, our extraordinary collections or our fascinating history.
mission history About organisation
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More than a leading Sydney attraction, the Australian Museum is a hub of information, resources and research. Learn more about Australia's first museum.
history governance About organisation
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Find out about the history of the Museum's zoological and anthropological collections, its historic and contemporary buildings and the people who have worked here over nearly two centuries.
history past exhibitions
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Stories about the amazing people who've worked at the Australian Museum from 1827.
Museum staff history
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In 1827, Governor Darling on the recommendation of Macleay, allocated £200 to the establishment and running of a museum, the Colonial Museum, which was subsequently renamed the Australian Museum in June 1836. Discover more stories about our history.
https://australianmuseum.net.au/about/history/history-of-the-library/
The Australian Museum Research Library collections form a major natural history resource in Australia.
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Bathurst's Letter
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Foundation document for the establishment of the Australian Museum.
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the most successful club in the world by the number of national champions won – 50 times the champions of Scotland!
European trophy: 1972. winners of the European Cup Winners Cup.
There are a few cities in the world that can boast a football derby. When we say the major derby here, we primarily refer to the traditional meetings of two trophy teams from the same city. With us, this is a match between Partizan and Zvezda. When playing a major derby, on that day, all friendships are forgotten, you are uncomfortable with your parents, a girl, a woman, and the victory against the most disadvantaged rival to most fans is even more important than winning a title. Often, the unsuccessful season is saved by a victory against the city rivals. That day, your stomach is squeezed, your arms swell, and you're nervous than usual. You do not have anything to eat, it's not your fault! The worst is when the game starts later (five, six in the afternoon), and you are awakened by nervousness, if you could sleep at all earlier. So then turn the movie in the head of the derby already played or did you just dream it? And then what to do all day long? Of course nothing! You bite nails, and you watch every five minutes per hour. This game, regardless of its importance, is always the most important. You do not need titles, cups, or participation in European competitions, just to win the big rival. However, Belgrade's eternal derby also has that emperor almost always directly decide on the champion! In Spain, for example, the tension rises when Real and Bars meet, but in the rivals of the Madrid rivals (Real Atletico) and Barcelona (Barcelona-Espanyol). In England, derby matches in London (Arsenal-Tottenham, Millwall-West Ham …), Manchester (United-City), Liverpool (Liverpool-Everton) or Birmingham (Villa-Birmingham) are always simple matches, but the match between Manchester United and Liverpool (in the last couple of seasons of Manchester and Arsenal) traditionally clinched two of the best and most frugal clubs that often directly decided on the championship.
Italy can boast some of the most interesting city derby. First of all, we are thinking of meetings between Rome and Lazio, as well as Inter and Milan. In addition to these two duels, major derbies are played in Torino, respectively, but they are matches that, for example, Juventus meet with Inter, Milan or Roma, however much more interesting (from a football, not a corner) and result more important than the matches against the rivals Turin which is currently second-class.
South of us, Athens has mobilized all available police and military forces so that the match between Olympiakos and Panathenaikos runs without incidents (which is almost impossible), and a similar situation exists in Istanbul when meeting Fenerbahce, Galatasaray and Besiktas.
One duel of eternal city rivals still bounces from others. In it, the tension is much greater than anywhere else, and it is almost always decided directly by the champion or the conqueror. This match is not only a clash between two teams and two armies of fans, but it is about rivalry with a much deeper background, two religions collide. Of course, there are two of the most successful Scottish teams in Celtic and Rangers.
What about Scottish football? Average or even below the European average! Football is one of the few things of life that are taking place in Scotland independently of the English. While the English are considered to be the founders of modern football, Scots are those who have contributed much to his training, especially at an early stage. The Scottish Football Association was founded in 1873, and the next is the first ever competition. Only a few teams from that time exist today, while many have disappeared after only a few years (like Third Larnaca and Vala Of Leven). The professional league began to play in the north of Great Britain in 1893 and the first title, in front of the nose of the rivals Rangers, was won by Celtic. Since then, the big duo from Glasgow has won over 85 percent of the title. Other Scottish clubs almost have nothing to look for in the joint league with Celtic and Rangers, so on several occasions they have been nominated for their transfer to the Premier League of England. Both clubs have greatly grown their competition in the league, and they are far from the others, both in terms of the number of fans and organization, finances and playgroups. It should be a real miracle so that a third team seriously interferes in the fight for the title, or at least divide the rivals at the top of the table.
Throughout the last century, only fifteen times the champion of Scotland was not one of the two Glasgow teams, and last time another club was able to win the title in 1985 when the champion was Aberdeen in the lead with Alex Ferguson. For now, however, everything is left only on the proposals and wishes of the small teams and the big sponsors, so that since moving away from the rivals in England, there will almost certainly be nothing.
When the founders of Rangers showed no interest in religion, they did not emphasize that they were Protestant clubs. Fifteen years later, with the founding of Celtic, Glasgow split into protestants and Catholics, at least on Rangers and Celtic. The immigrants from Ireland, the Catholics who were then a minority in the city, gathered around their Irish tricolor, founded their football club and gave it their green and white colors. The connection between the club, the navy and the Catholic Church was very strong from the start.
Since then, an unwritten rule has been created in the Protestant Ranger that no Catholic can wear a blue jersey, nor be employed in any function at the club. Soon the derby of the games in Glasgow became known as "The Old Firm", which in a literal translation would mean an old one. These are games that have been played each season since the formation of both teams, lately, due to the system of the competition at least four times, there is a big deal in the game, and the stadiums are always sold out in advance.
Long before the appearance of the first hooligans in the island's old stadiums, the "The Old Firm" march filled with disorder. Going to the game for the fans of both teams, is naughty with going to a religious war. The whole town was divided at that time. The eastern region was settled by Catholics, Celtic fans, while the rest of Glasgow was made by Protestants. In 1921, during a derby, a wooden stand was broken. Twenty-six people were injured, and over a hundred of them were injured. Fifty years later, the biggest tragedy in Scottish stadiums took place. At the end of the game Celtic-Rangers, under the pressure of the masses, the stairs collapsed. Sixty-six fans lost their lives, and almost forty of them got injuries. During the derby in 1975, two fans were killed and nine others stabbed with knives. At one point, doctors could barely pat a hand that was cut in a few places by an ax. Another thirty-five fans of both teams were held on that day in a hospital treatment. After a series of incidents everything culminated in the derby in the Cup final in 1980 when the game was barely end up due to the general squad on the stands. Despite the great pressure of the football federation, Rangers still did not think that he had brought a Catholic player into his ranks, while Celtic, in which there had always been protesters, (in Celtic was played Protestant Bertie Peathingy, who was even allegedly an extreme member of the order Protestant oranges) refused to remove the flag of Ireland from the stadium.
In 1989, the Rangers coach, legendary Graeme Souness, gave a shock statement to the press conference that he was exclusively interested in the success of the team and the quality of the football players, not their religious affiliation. On the same day, he was promoted by a new amplification, Catholic Maurice Johnston, a former hero from the Celtic Park. To the extent that the public supported him and called him a peacemaker, the most stubborn Ranger's fans were crashing on him, who did not overlook the fact that the hated Mo Johnston, who even crossed them (the protesters never baptized) while leaving the court when In a derby in 1986, the referee showed him a red card, wear a blue jersey. Many fans at Ibrox simply did not count Mo's goals, while the most extreme even silenced those who rejoiced in his fate. A few years later, English reporter Mark Hateley also did not come to welcome Rangers fans, as they themselves were not sure if he was Catholic or Protestant. Hateley was actually married to a Catholic who was inconceivable to the fans. A similar fate was experienced by Trevor Francis, who was reported to have enrolled his children at the Catholic school, and the whistleblower from the stands was welcomed by Protestant Mark Falco as he had the custom of being baptized.
Today, the situation in the city itself has changed much. A large number of Catholics are lawyers, judges, doctors, which was unthinkable fifty years ago. Catholics and prattestants live next to each other and hatred is no longer so pronounced, although all good neighborly relations are forgotten on the day of the game. The players of both clubs and all staff are familiar with the rules of conduct while the match takes place. For example, the director of Rangers was forced to resign after the cameras had shot him while singing the conquered cup with the fans of the anti-Catholic song. Half the ninety-eight in the blue jersey was played by the always-incredible Englishman Paul Gascoigne who once simulated the playing of the frule (traditional instrument oranges) before the fans of Celtic. Penalties followed the popular player, but he, like in many cases before that, did not care much, and he resembled a similar gesture a few years later as a player of Middlesbrough. In a friendly game, his team then met with his ex. The whole stadium scandalized him, and Rangers fans welcomed him ovations. The song "Gazza, Gazza lets play the flute" asked him to beat them again once again, which he did of course.
During the seventh century, Protestants moved from Cromwell England to the Irish province of Ulster, now known as Northern Ireland, and appropriated the most fertile land for themselves, imposing their laws and codes of conduct on them. Only then did the Irish begin to organize, because they did not want their country to be ruled from London.
At the end of the nineteenth and during the first half of the twentieth century, Belfast had its own imitation of The Old Firm derby. In 1891, Belfast Celtic was founded, modeled after a club from Glasgow. The match against the Protestant teams was no less fierce than in Scotland, and in 1940 the game with Linfield was interrupted for shooting. Nine years later, after the general squad of fans and players of both teams, there was a lot of injury on both sides and the worst was passed by one Linfield fighter, who was broken leg. Shortly after these incidents, Belfast Celtic ceased to exist, and Catholics began to follow a small club from neighborhood Cliftonville.
However, both clubs from Belfast are too small, so all the fans are turning to their rivals from Glasgow. It is exactly the fans of Celtic and Rangers from Northern Ireland who are considered the most trusted in Britain. More than eighty percent goes to every game of their clubs. Catholics from Belfast who go to Celtic games are mostly Sinn Fein's voting body, and fifty percent do not have a permanent job. Particularly interesting are the departures on the derby stage when the fans of two teams are obliged to travel separately ships. "Celtic is an Irish club that plays in a foreign league, which is strange," said Paul Hamill, a Celtic player from Belfast, on the occasion, and added: "In Northern Ireland, you are deciding on a birth for one or the other. There are no neutral ones. Ever since my little recount, Celtic has pulled me in the ears as well as my mom or dad. "Since Celtic fans are mostly Irish, they follow Ireland's reprints. Rangers fans do not care much about the reprints of Scotland. There is even a story that some celebrated when their idol Paul Gascoigne scored a goal for England against Scotland at the European Championship.
In the last decade, Celtic culture has become popular across Europe. Traditional Irish music and dances are popular in many countries.
The Celtic fans are mostly Catholics or "Tims" as they mockingly call them. Rangers are "Prods" protests, Unionists, loyalists … What is interesting is that none of the other fans are hooligans and rarely cause incidents except in the mutual duel, but they are based exclusively on a religious basis. "Celtic does not have a Casulas team. They are all dressed in striped green white jerseys and tracksuits and rarely cause disarray. Rangers is already a different story, but they also lag far behind the hooligans of Aberdeen, Motherwell, or Hearts. Rangers, however, have Casuals, dressed in the model of their southern neighbors. They are called the Inter City Firm (like West Ham, although one has tried to make the ICF abbreviate as Ibrox Casual Firm). A lot of them wear "Hackett" clothes and this collection with St. George with a cross (English flag) on the chest. "Adds our interlocutor.
Celtic fans every year in the middle of March celebrate St. Patrick, while the Rangers celebrate July 12, 1690, the day William, Prince of Orange (Dutch origin) in the Battle of the River Boyne, dragged King James Stuart and his tyrannical authority. Then a monarchy and parliamentary government was established. Every July 12, in the glorious Revolution, festivals and traditional Orange Marches are organized (The Orange Order is an Irish Protestant Society founded in 1795) in the cities of Great Britain as well as in many places in Europe.
"The songs of the fans of Celtic are mostly Irish traditional, and it is only about the success of the club (winning the European titles in 1967) or the players. Celtic, Celtic are scouting, Henrick Larsson is greeted, and the entire stadium is packed with the appropriated Liverpool's "You Will Never Walk Alone" or the club "Heil, Heil The Celts Are Here!". When the Celts scroll " f ** k the Queen! ", On the opposite side comes the answer " f ** k the Pope! " Rangers' songs are mostly " sectarian " (not to say sectarian in order to be in the literal translation, but rather religious but "sick" content and full of hatred with regard to the past), and except on a few occasions when the club is scandal, everything else is reduced to calling the Catholics. "Your moms are stealers, your dads are dealers ! "(your mothers are thieves, and your fathers dealers) sang all seven thousand fans of Rangers, alluding to the dirty jobs that the Irish are traditionally vicarious. On several occasions, "Hello, Hello We Are Billy Boys!" Shouted: "Billy Fullerton was a local mangup, a small crime, a protestant and, of course, a fan of Rangers, whose Razor Gang glows and lights up Glasgow for the twenties years of the last century, although in some places there is a version of Billy's association with Prince William's nickname). Songs "The Sash" (a canvas that oranges carry over the shoulder over the shoulder) and "Derry's Walls" are singing in full with several sculptures. From this second, the famous slogan "No Surrender" (… and the cry was no surrender; surrender or yell die, die, die; with heart and hand and a sword and a shield; we will guard old Derry's walls .. .). One call to the IRAs while others spit and sing about UDF … everything is overly and difficult to understand.


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Ex-cops accused of raping teen ask judge to dismiss case, right in front of alleged victim
Posted 8:39 am, February 7, 2019, by Tribune Media Wire
NEW YORK CITY — Two ex-cops accused of raping a teen asked a judge to dismiss the case against them Wednesday - right in front of the alleged victim.
The two disgraced detectives insist that the September 2017 encounter was consensual, but Anna Chambers and her attorney call it rape. Recent legislation supports her assessment. It was passed to help prevent cases like hers, according to WPIX.
The ex-cops, Edward Martins and Richard Hall, entered the courtroom around 2:30 p.m. Thursday, followed momentarily by Chambers, for a hearing.
"Being here, seeing them is disgusting," Chambers told WPIX.
The hearing had been called because a judge who'd been asked by both prosecutors and the officers' attorneys to appoint a special prosecutor in the case had declined to do so.
So the trial judge, Justice Denny Chin, had to consider next steps in the case that resulted in the two officers resigning their positions as NYPD detectives.
They've admitted to encountering Chambers in a drug bust in Brooklyn's Calvert Vaux Park, then taking turns engaging in sex acts with her in their unmarked police van in a Chipotle restaurant parking lot.
Ex-cops Martins and Hall insist that the sexual encounter was consensual. In the courtroom on Thursday, in front of her, they and their attorneys asked for the case to be thrown out.
"[Prosecutors have] publicly acknowledged the witness has made false statements," said one of the officers' lawyers, Mark Bederow. "They cannot ethically proceed with calling her as a witness."
The judge agreed to consider the ex-cops' argument that since Chambers had apparently made conflicting statements to investigators in the past, the criminal case should be dismissed. The former officers' attorneys also said that prosecutors couldn't produce a cellphone that Chambers had apparently claimed to have incriminating evidence.
"That's bullish**," Chambers said candidly at court. She said that she'd "been raped and they're trying to turn everything on me."
The case involving Chambers — which is an alias she uses to protect her identity — prompted New York state senators to unanimously pass a bill that concludes that nobody who is in law enforcement custody is capable of consensual sex.
"It's ridiculous," said Chambers, "that I have to get raped" in order for such a measure to pass.
It has not passed both houses of the legislature. Nationwide, 35 states do not have legal provisions making it illegal for law enforcement officers to have sex with someone in their custody.
Chambers's attorney said that in the interest of seeing that change, and to get other women to come forward about sex abuse, she's being public about what happened to her.
Chambers has acquired tens of thousands of supporters on social media, and elsewhere online. Often, a couple dozen or so show up at court hearings in her case to show support, but there weren't any on Thursday.
Her attorney said that her client's efforts are not in vain.
"She's going to continue speaking out," said her lawyer Michael David. "They're trying to silence her. That's what is going on."
For their part, prosecutors from the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office issued a statement through a spokesperson: "Our office will continue to evaluate how to carefully and ethically proceed in this case and we are committed to holding these defendants accountable."
The next hearing in the case is on March 6. The judge is expected to rule then whether to dismiss the case, or proceed to trial.
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5 of the richest companies in history
Inconceivable wealth. And a few lessons in how not to get rich, too.
Ned Dymoke
You've definitely heard of Apple. But what about the Dutch East India Company?
Did a 1911 Supreme Court decision result in more millionaires in America than any other court case?
One example of how not to do it: the rise and fall of the Mississippi Company.
Dutch East India Company
The VOC flag. Photo credit: Michael Coghlan via Flickr.
Known under the initials VOC (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie), the Dutch East India Company would be worth about $7.8 trillion today. Founded in 1602, it accomplished globalist capitalism some 400 years before everyone else did. It began as a shipping company — with a 21 year monopoly on the Dutch spice market — before branching into almost every aspect of the spice trade, from production to consumer sales, while still keeping a massive footprint in the shipping industry at large for more than 100 years. But this success came at a massive moral cost: they exploited foreign workers, imprisoned many, and benefitted hugely from the slave trade. But for that 100 years, VOC was a gargantuan presence around the world. They controlled armadas of ships that were able to fight off navies and take territories, an impressive feat for a privately held company (imagine if Arby's began to take over entire city blocks).
You could probably say that the very idea of globalism stems from the VOC. Europeans wanted spices and textiles from Asia, but Asia didn't want very much in return except for precious metals — which Portugal and Spain had in abundance at the time. Paraphrasing here for the sake of brevity, the VOC created a hugely profitable trade corridor between Asia and Europe. And from around 1620 to 1630, the VOC used profits to reinvest in itself, becoming exponentially bigger in the process.
The Mississippi Company and the South Sea Company
John Law
Ooh, boy. This is a story. In you lived in France in the early 1700s you'd have likely heard of the Mississippi Company. Depending on which version of their history you read, you'll get two very different narratives about the company. They either controlled much of France's commercial interests in the New World for 20 years before fizzling out due to mismanagement... or they shipped convicts and prostitutes to Arkansas and Louisiana to ostensibly work for them in order to inflate their numbers and increase speculation on paper which nearly led to bankrupting France.
Both versions of the company history hold true. The central figure of the story was a Scottish economist named John Law who convinced the then-king of France, Louis XIV, to allow him to run the Banque Générale Privée ("General Private Bank") in 1716, taking on the national debt, which he then used to finance the Mississippi Company to organize trade with the New World. Law's company, in the space of two short years, bought several other shipping companies in order to create a near-monopoly of trade on the world's oceans. In order to fund such a massive operation, in 1720 the Mississippi Company became tied into the Banque Générale, which became the Banque Royale. Law kept pushing the valuation of his company and soon began shipping prisoners and prostitutes to America to work for his company as part of a marketing scheme which promised huge returns on stock.
The thing is: the scheme worked... but only for a very short while. Stocks soared, and then crashed. The whole cycle lasted just 4 years. Law fled to London and then to Venice, where he gambled away what he had left and died penniless in 1729 in Venice.
At roughly the same time, a joint-stock company was formed in England called the South Sea Company. John Law had been exiled from England after killing a man in a duel in 1694 (and was only free as he'd managed to escape prison and flee to Amsterdam), but after word of his successes with the Mississippi Company reached British shores they decided to set up their own similar joint-stock venture. The South Sea Company was given a monopoly to trade with South America. It, too, overvalued itself... mostly through speculation of a £70 million line of credit through the King of England himself, which never actually happened. A rush on stock by a who's-who of the who-was in England at the time (including Sir Isaac Newton, who had bought about £22,000 in South Sea stock) — followed by a slew of insider trading by South Sea employees who realized the bubble was about to burst — brought about a huge economic crash.
Both the South Sea Company and the Mississippi Company didn't actually do much trading with the Americas. It was mostly just a clever marketing ploy combined with public gullibility.
Businessmen in Saudi Arabia
Invited foreign and Saudi investors attend the Future Investment Initiative (FII) conference in Riyadh, on October 24, 2017.
The head of oil giant Saudi Aramco said that a lack of recent investments in the oil sector could lead to a shortage of supplies. / AFP PHOTO / FAYEZ NURELDINE
Still around today, Saudi Aramco is one of the world's biggest oil producers. Adjusted for inflation, at it's height, the company was worth $4.1 trillion.
When oil was discovered in Bahrain in 1932, the Saudi government accepted a bid from the newly-founded California-Arabian Standard Oil Company to search for oil in nearby Saudi Arabia. Soon after, Texas OilCo bought a 50 percent stake in California-Arabian. For the next five years, no oil was discovered and the company was hemorrhaging money. Finally, oil was discovered in Dhahran in 1938 and production quickly soared. Changing its name to Arabian American Oil Co (or, for short, Aramco) in 1944, it was then forced to share its profits with the Saudi government starting in 1950. This essentially nationalized the oil production, leading the huge amounts of money for the Saudi government. In 1980, the Saudi government assumed full control of Aramco.
While not quite as colorful a history as the Mississippi Company, Aramco is itself responsible for what economists now call the "golden gimmick" — wherein (and I'm definitely paraphrasing) a country's government takes shares from the company because it's just so darn profitable. Must be nice.
John D Rockefeller circa 1930: at work in his study. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Ever heard the phrase "richer than a Rockefeller"? Well, that's because John D. Rockefeller founded Standard Oil in 1870 in Ohio. It became the largest oil refinery in the world for a number of years. Adjusted for inflation, in 1905, it was worth well over $1 trillion in today's money.
Rockefeller controlled 90 percent of the oil in America during the early 20th century; oil was used during that time primarily as a light source for lamps (this is before electricity became widely available) and then, with the invention of the car, became fuel for automobiles. Rockefeller was the cornerstone of two major industries until 1911, when Standard Oil was dissolved by none other than the U.S. Supreme Court for being an "illegal monopoly." When Standard Oil was broken up into 34 different companies — the shares of those companies became worth more than Standard Oil was, thus making Rockefeller obscenely wealthy instead of just extraordinarily wealthy.
How rich was John D. Rockefeller? Well, in 1913 he alone was worth about 2 percent of the entire U.S. GDP — about $400 billion, when adjusted for today's inflation. He attributed his success to a hard work ethic, his faith in God, and his abstinence from alcohol.
Oh, and those 34 companies? Two of them, Jersey Standard and Socony, became Exxon and Mobil, respectively. They eventually merged into a new company called Exxon-Mobil. That single company took over exactly where Standard Oil had left off and became a huge player in the gasoline industry. In 2007, it was worth $572 billion.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs speaks during an Apple special event April 8, 2010 in Cupertino, California. Jobs announced the new iPhone OS4 software. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Apple was founded back in 1976 by Steve Jobs, a canny marketer, and Steve Wozniak, an unparalleled programmer and computer genius. They had early successes in personal computers with the Apple I and the Macintosh, but by the mid-'90s they'd petered out, seemingly much more interested in appeasing shareholders than the public. Did you know Apple made CD players for a while? Digital cameras? A lot of people don't remember Apple's "weird" period.
But let's single out the the Apple Newton. This PDA (personal digital assistant) nearly bankrupted the company in 1993 after being rushed out before it was ready; it's handwriting recognition feature could barely read anything other than block letters and was widely mocked. Hold that thought for a paragraph.
Around 1997, Steve Jobs returned to the company and decided to concentrate on what the company did best: personal computing that catered to regular day-to-day users rather than avid tech professionals. He began to cater to different groups with singular products. The PowerMac for pro users. The iMac for classrooms. The MacBook and the MacBook Pro for people working out of coffeeshops.
But then Apple created the iPod, which could hold an entire library of music in your pocket. It was followed by the iPhone... a landmark device that put the internet, colors and all, in your pocket. The iPhone, funnily enough, has huge similarities to the much maligned Newton. Now consider the iPad and the Apple Pencil and how their handwriting recognition technology is considered the best in the industry. Sometimes you have the right idea but just 20 years too soon.
Then there was the iTunes store, which took over the music industry. Then the App Store, which transformed the tech ecosystem. In August of 2018, they became the most valuable company in the world with $1 trillion in value.
Which is still pennies compared to the Dutch East India Company. But hey. Who's counting?
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United Airlines flight emergency lands with destroyed engine
posted on 14th February 2018 by Jordan Newton
A United Airlines flight was forced into an emergency landing yesterday after one of its engines was severely impaired mid-flight, leaving passengers terrified.
The United flight was operating between San Francisco and Honolulu after a loud bang apparently shook the aircraft.
It was discovered by passengers that one of the Boeing 777s engine covers had come off around half an hour before the flight was due to land.
The flight eventually made a safe emergency landing at its destination with nobody on board hurt. The airline will be fully cooperating with an investigation by the FAA.


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Anaheim's 2019 legislative platform serves as an outline for the city's position on legislative matters. It lays the foundation for us to support or oppose various local, state and federal issues.
This platform is meant to be an evolving document that is amended regularly from year to year or as critical legislation is introduced.
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Does Lamar Odom have brain damage? Khloe Kardashian's appearance on Ellen fuels speculation
John November 17, 2015 Khloe Kardashian, Lamar Odom, Medical Emergencies, Rumors
The "Lamar Odom brain damage" rumors spread across the internet like wildfire on Monday, following Khloe Kardashian's appearance on Ellen. Khloe intended to clear up several rumors about she and Lamar Odom, but a few things that she said seemed to puzzle viewers more than anything else.
Odom has made what several medical professionals have called a "miracle" recovery since he was first admitted to a hospital for a drug overdose and seizures over a month ago. He's off life support machines and has reportedly begun physical therapy of some kind, though the extact extent of Odom's recovery regimen is unknown. And today, when Khloe appeared on Ellen, she appeared to stunt the notion of a true miracle recovery, saying that she and others who've visited Odom in his Los Angeles hospital room haven't been completely forthcoming about his condition.
"We tell him he has a brain injury," Khloe admitted, as she further acknowledged that Odom doesn't know why he's in the hospital at all. "I can't tell him how that brain injury was caused because it will set him back. He's really confused a lot, so we have to remind him. Every day is different."
A further shock to Lamar Odom fans came when Khloe went on to admit that Odom is "learning how to walk again and feed himself again, put sentences together….He is off of all machines that help his organs, but still he has such a long way to go."
While Khloe Kardashian didn't directly acknowledge the possibility of Lamar Odom brain damage, insiders did report that doctors at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center fear that that's exactly what Odom has suffered. According to that report, Odom has trouble recognizing visitors to his hospital room–and, furthermore, is "having a tough time with communication and mobility," in a corroboration of what Khloe revealed to Ellen.
Through it all, Khloe has remained by Odom's side, a fact she explained for at least the third time to DeGeneres and her audience. For Khloe, there was no question that she was going to throw out her pending divorce from Odom, given the "vultures" she saw waiting to pounce on her estranged husband.
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The shocking death of a young woman leads Detective Dave Robicheaux into the dark corners of Hollywood, the mafia, and the backwoods of Louisiana in this gripping mystery from "modern master" (Publishers Weekly) James Lee Burke. Detective Dave Robicheaux's world isn't filled with too many happy stories, but Desmond Cormier's rags-to-riches tale is certainly one of them. Robicheaux first met Cormier on the streets of New Orleans, when the young, undersized boy had foolish dreams of becoming a Hollywood director. Twenty-five years later, when Robicheaux knocks on Cormier's door, it isn't to congratulate him on his Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations. Robicheaux has discovered the body of a young woman who's been crucified, wearing only a small chain on her ankle. She disappeared near Cormier's Cyrpemort Point estate, and Robicheaux, along with young deputy, Sean McClain, are looking for answers. Neither Cormier nor his enigmatic actor friend Antoine Butterworth are saying much, but Robicheaux knows better. As always, Clete Purcel and Davie's daughter, Alafair, have Robicheaux's back. Clete witnesses the escape of Texas inmate, Hugo Tillinger, who may hold the key to Robicheaux's case. As they wade further into the investigation, they end up in the crosshairs of the mob, the deranged Chester Wimple, and the dark ghosts Robicheaux has been running from for years. Ultimately, it's up to Robicheaux to stop them all, but he'll have to summon a light he's never seen or felt to save himself, and those he loves. Stephen King hailed New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke "as good as he ever was." Now, with The New Iberia Blues, Burke proves that he "remains the heavyweight champ, a great American novelist whose work, taken individually or as a whole, is unsurpassed" (Michael Connelly).
American mystery author, James Lee Burke, was born in Houston, Texas, explaining why most of the lead characters in his novels are Texan. He has won two Edgar awards, which is a very rare experience, and is a bestselling author of two short story collections and over thirty novels. Burke is best known for his Dave Robicheaux series. His Edgar Awards were for Black Cherry and Cimarron Rose. Two of his series were made into screen plays with each movie having a-list actors playing the Robicheaux character (Alec Baldwin - Heaven's Prisoners, and Tommy Lee Jones- In the Electric Mist).
A writer must usually hold down other employment while they attempt to gain a degree of following readers. Burke's various jobs included.......truck driver, newspaper reporter, social worker, land surveyor, unemployment system employee, Job Corps worker, teacher, and finally, novelist.
Burke lives in Montana with his wife, Pearl, two daughters, and four grandchildren. His favorite advice was given by Irving Stone, when Burke was nineteen.......... "Never write a story to pay your gas bill......if you do, be assured your utilities will be turned off".


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Q: Problems redirecting to "pretty" permalinks (wordpress in Subdirectory) I've got problems getting pretty permalinks to work.
When changing the permalinks (e.g. to month/name), my .htaccess (in the wordpress directory - there is another one one level up) is changed like this:
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php

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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
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But I still get 404s when trying to access an existing page.
My blog is in the /wordpress/ subdirectory, not sure if that may be a problem. The URLs are both set to  http://<my domain>/wordpress which is where my wordpress files are located.
Any ideas what I can do, where I can see the results of the rewrite or anything else that would help me to track down the problem?
Thanks in advance!

A: Save your existing .htaccess file by renaming it to backup.htaccess & then re-save your permalinks which will create a new .htaccess file. That solves issues most of the time.

A: I've finally managed to track down the cause of the problem .. it was a Plugin that seems to have issues (Top Level Categories). I've looked into their documentation, but there is no indication that I would run into that problem. Hmmmm ...
At least it's working now!

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Edmund Woga CSsR (* 17. November 1950 in Hewokloang) ist Bischof von Weetebula.

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Edmund Woga empfing am 29. November 1977 die Priesterweihe, trat der Ordensgemeinschaft der Redemptoristen bei und legte 1985 die Profess ab. Papst Benedikt XVI. ernannte ihn am 4. April 2009 zum Bischof von Weetebula.

Der Bischof von Maumere, Girulfus Kherubim Pareira SVD, spendete ihm am 16. Juli desselben die Bischofsweihe; Mitkonsekratoren waren Vincentius Sensi Potokota, Erzbischof von Ende, und Johannes Maria Trilaksyanta Pujasumarta, Bischof von Bandung.

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Anne Cecilie Kjelling
Anne Cecilie Kjelling was an External Associate at PRIO until 2005.
Book Review Editor
In Memory of Anne Cecilie Kjelling (1941–2021)
For 40 years from 1971 to 2011, Anne Cecilie Kjelling and the Library of the Norwegian Nobel Institute were as one. Probably every single peace, conflict, security or international relations researcher based in Oslo, or visiting the Nobel Institute during that period, will have benefitted from her kind and diligent help to identify the best possible literature or published sources for the topic they wanted to explore. She was not just interested in the books and journals as such, or in keeping them in good order, but was fascinated by our research topics. This led her to become an active participant in the Peace History section of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA).
Many a PRIOite has discussed their research projects with her and benefitted greatly from her advice. From her vantage point in the open office next to the whispering quiet she maintained in the Nobel Institute's reading room, she keenly followed PRIO's exploits through the years. She was a frequent source of help and advice for Odvar Leine, PRIO's head librarian during 2007–2017, and our current head librarian, Olga Baeva, for some years worked part time under Anne Kjelling's direction at the Nobel Institute. Anne Kjelling served as book review editor for PRIO's journal Security Dialogue from 1995–2005. Until recently, we saw her coming regularly to our seminars. And after she retired from the Nobel Institute, she took up a position at the Oslo Jewish Museum, in the immediate vicinity of PRIO.
Anne C. Kjelling (1941-2021) was the book review editor for Security Dialogue 1995-2005 and has for many years been close to PRIO, also with the library cooperation between PRIO and the Nobel Institute.


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Enable this option if you want callers to announce their name before continuing to connect the call. This option lets you identify the caller so you can pick up the call immediately. When this feature is enabled, Users will be able to hear the caller's recorded name and use the IVR prompt to answer the call on either the RingCentral Phone or RingCentral Phone for Mobile.
Once the feature has been enabled, go to Call Handling & Forwarding > Settings > Incoming Call Information to set your preferences.
3. Click Screening, Greeting, & Hold Music. Under User Hours, enable Call Screening.
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Highly-rated Ireland prospect Anthony Scully linked with Championship move
by Andrew Dempsey
A big move on the way for Anthony Scully.
Former Ireland U21 Anthony Scully has been linked with a move away from League One Lincoln City, according to reports in England this week.
Scully, who has been in fine form all season for the Imps, has been linked with a move to several Championship clubs according to the Football League World.
Millwall, Blackburn Rovers, Barnsley and Preston North End are all understood to be tracking the progress of the 22-year-old forward who has yet to earn a senior call-up under Stephen Kenny.
Scully set for a Championship move.
So far this season, Scully has established himself as a key man in Lincoln's starting XI, scoring seven goals in 14 league games.
It has, however, been a challenging season for the Imps, with Michael Appleton's side sitting in 15th position in the league table after an inconsistent start.
In September, there were considerable calls for Scully to be called up to Kenny's senior squad, but those fell on deaf ears.
Wigan Athletic's Will Keane earned a call up instead, with Scully once again missing out on the November internationals.
But it has been a strong few years for the English-born forward in recent times, as he scored 11 league goals in 40 appearances last season for Lincoln City.
Anthony Scully.
And his continued form has alerted four Championship clubs, with Millwall, Blackburn Rovers, Barnsley and Preston North End all tracking his progress.
Unsurprisingly, Anthony Scully (22) is attracting interest. The 22-year-old forward has eleven goals this season ??⚽?#COYBIG https://t.co/MMuFHARzWZ
— Kenny's Kids (@KennysKids) November 18, 2021
Barnsley, who are under new management, have an Irish underage star in their ranks in William Hondermarck, whereas Blackburn Rovers also have Irish defender Darragh Lenihan within their squad.
Should he join Preston, he is likely to strike up a partnership with former Cork City forward Sean Maguire, while midfielder Alan Browne remains an integral part of their side.
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Harp, a 27-year-old teacher, is on the fringe of Generation X, and someday soon she could be someone's boss.
As baby boomers reach retirement age, Xers such as Harp will find opportunities for promotions. But the transition could be rocky and spell changes for the workforce.
To start, there aren't as many Xers as boomers.
Boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, number about 76 million. Counts for Gen vary. Some demographers measure it as the 49 million born between 1965 and 1976. Others say it's the more than 59 million people born between 1965 and 1980.
While the replacement rate for retiring boomers won't be one-for-one, most generational experts agree the number of people in their late 20s and 30s falls short of the boomers who will leave the workforce.
As this generation of well-educated and creative minds prepares to take on more management positions, industry leaders worry about decades of institutional knowledge leaving the workforce.
The transition could also mean the end of a clash of generational cultures that has taken place in the workplace since Xers started graduating from college.
There has been a tug-of-war between workaholic boomers and balance-seeking Xers. The so-called antiestablishment slackers generally said no to 60-hour weeks, a choice that has confused some in the boomer generation.
It's still early to predict the challenges Gen Xers will face as they manage younger generations. But there's little doubt the workplace will change as one generation exits and another leaves its mark.
The transition might be more difficult in professions such as nursing and teaching, which already have labor shortages.
Harp, who teaches fifth grade at Morse Elementary School in Troy, Mich., plans to become an administrator, following in her parents' footsteps.
But the National Education Association says a third of new teachers leave the profession within their first three years. Half of new teachers leave by the 5-year mark, citing better opportunities, family issues and challenges they didn't expect.
The Belmont, Mass.-based nonprofit group Recruiting New Teachers Inc. reports two-thirds of the teaching population will have to be replaced in the next decade.
"The leadership population comes largely from the teaching population, and that has implications that there is a desperate need for highly qualified principals," said Mildred Hudson, CEO of Recruiting New Teachers.
That shouldn't be as big a problem in fields that have higher retention rates, such as technology.
Managers need to focus on giving their young workers opportunities to work with veteran workers by emphasizing mentorship programs and pairing employees from different generations together to work on projects, human resources experts say.
That process needs to happen early, said Betty Purkey, manager of work-life strategies at Texas Instruments Inc.
There are also industry-wide attempts to capture institutional knowledge.
The Society of Automotive Engineers has assembled a group of nearly 40 retirees to consult with auto suppliers on a project basis and address the loss of expertise companies expect as boomers retire.
"As new people come in the industry, there's a great benefit to having some veterans around to help them get up to speed faster," said Neil Schilke, managing director of the group's Automotive Resources Institute.
Michael Earle, a 31-year-old local client representative for IBM Corp., looks forward to a management job but doesn't want the veterans in his department to leave too quickly.
He confers with those employees and his dad, an IBM retiree, when he needs advice.
"As a company, we need to figure out the best way to leverage those people who will soon be retiring and keep them involved in the company," Earle said.
If Gen X's priorities are any indication, the workplace could change when it is in charge.
Over the years, Gen Xers have debunked the slacker theory. But they seem to have broken away from the workaholic habits of their boomer bosses and parents.
"What they saw in that workaholism was divorce, fatigue, illness, substance abuse and one-track lives. And so their generation grew up to say 'not us,'" said Chuck Underwood, a Cincinnati-based generational consultant.
That might explain the results of a study the Families and Work Institute recently released that shows workers ages 18 to 37 are more likely to view family as an equal or higher priority than work.
Take, for example, 34-year-old accountant Sean Sant, who moved from Ernst & Young in Detroit to Virchow Krause & Co. in Bingham Farms, Mich., in January. He made the move so he could trim his commute and spend an extra half hour with his family at their new home. In choosing his job, Sant also decided against companies that required more than 50 hours during a typical week, outside of tax season.
"Clearly jobs are very important, but you have to put your family first," he said.
Jason Schwegler, a 31-year-old father of two, said he has aspirations for management. But he isn't willing to sacrifice too much time with his family to advance.
"I guess my goal in life is to be comfortable, have a comfortable living for me and my family and be happy in what I do. If it happens that I have to be in one place to be content for the rest of my life, then that's fine," said Schwegler, an electrical engineer at Siemens VDO Automotive.
While Gen Xers work hard, "they're more likely to think that work is important but not the only thing in their lives," said Ellen Galinsky, president and cofounder of the Families and Work Institute.
While businesses already offer some chances to work from home, schedule four-day weeks and share jobs, that flexibility might become more common as Gen Xers enter management.
But the balance of life and work won't hurt the bottom line, one generational expert said.
"A big Xer watchword is accountability," said Neil Howe, who is a consultant for generational issues.
That might be due to societal changes that took place when Gen Xers grew up.
The divorce rate hovered near record highs in the early 1980s. Many Xers saw large companies lay off their parents.
The oldest members of Generation Y are graduating from college and embarking on their careers.
These sons and daughters of soccer moms are diverse, driven, connected and rival boomers in numbers.
Gen Y has been measured as the 72 million people born between 1977 and 1994. Howe, who coauthored a book about the generation, views Gen Y—also called Millennials—as the 100 million-plus people born after 1982.
That might have something to do with the pressure Gen Y's feel in college, especially as the sizes of freshman classes across the country continue to break records.
"We can't chill. The pressure is always on," said Athena Akram, a 23 -year-old biology major at Wayne State University.
There's pressure to do well in school, please parents, keep up with technology and compete for jobs.
"You're competing against a whole bunch of people who are probably as smart, who are probably just as determined as you," said Sidra Khan, a 20-year-old premed student at Wayne State.
Despite the pressure, Gen Y has followed the example of Gen and prioritizes a balanced life.
Akram, a senior, planned to become a doctor, but decided to become a dentist three months ago.
"Medical school is a lot to handle, especially if I want to have kids in three or four years," she said.
Balance is a priority for Gen Y across the board.
This plugged-in generation is also very connected to their parents.
It is common to see a college student whip out a cell phone to talk to mom or dad when faced with a decision at school, said Kelley Bishop, executive director of Career Services and Placement at Michigan State University.
A parent's role could spill into the workplace. Gardner said the parents of Millennials are getting involved in salary negotiations. Employers could even hear from parents after delivering a poor evaluation, Howe said.
Though it's too early to tell how they'll affect the workplace, Gen Y's so far have been model citizens, Howe said. They're organized. They work well in teams. They volunteer and show promising leadership skills.


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